Word: hullabalooers
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...Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week were the makings of a terrific hullabaloo...
...educational hullabaloo about intellectual and social guidance is meaningless to the average Freshman. And unless reformers look at every dimension of the real figure, their efforts are mere words. In trying to uplift the personal element in education to its rightful place beside the academic, they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily...
Heralded by an unprecedented hullabaloo of publicity, and greeted by a shower of critical ice water, Schumann's "lost" Violin Concerto finally had its U. S. premiere last week, when 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin, former infant prodigy, appearing for his first New York recital in two seasons, played it in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
...Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keeffe tried to have the statues removed, to the rage of Sculptor Epstein and esthetes in general. Artist Richard Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy because that solemn body refused to sponsor a public appeal for the statues' preservation, and with all the hullabaloo the move to oust the statues was quietly dropped...
...worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They raised such a hullabaloo that a law was passed forbidding all tideland drilling. Then in 1933 oil engineers devised a new method of drilling called "whip-stocking," which enabled oil companies to drill on a slant, tap oil pools as much as 1,000 ft. away...